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Yeah all the Terminator energy around these AI things is so off-putting. They aren't like that. They're big matrices and they are very cool tools!

bbor 3y ago
What if big matrices are the last missing piece to research going on since the 50s…
circuit10 3y ago
But the concerns about AI taking over the world are valid and important; even if they sound silly at first, there is some very solid reasoning behind it. They’re big matrices, yes, but they’re Turing-complete which means they can theoretically do any computational task See https://youtu.be/tcdVC4e6EV4 https://youtu.be/tcdVC4e6EV4 for a really interesting video on why a theoretical superintelligent AI would be dangerous, and when you factor in that these models could self-improve and approach that level of intelligence it gets worrying…
- garbagecoder 3y ago
  This comment basically implies I don't get it, but I will if I watch a Youtube video. I get it. ChatGPT isn't that. That's the point. You can have concerns about AGI. That's fine. But they have nothing to do with LLMs unless you are trying to play a shell game.
  - circuit10 3y ago
    But you were talking about AI in general and dismissing the risk entirely as sci-fi. I think a large enough LLM, or at least a slightly modified one, could lead to AGI and we’re not as far from it as you think
cubefox 3y ago
> They're big matrices and they are very cool tools! Well, your mom is a etc Edit: Since this is getting downvoted I'll be more explicit: The human brain may well be also just described as some simple sort of thing, but that doesn't mean humans are not dangerous, nor hypothetical humans with a brain ten times as large and a million times faster. The worry about AIs killing all humans soon is not naive just by sounding naive.
- mrtranscendence 3y ago
  Sure, it's not naive just because it sounds naive. It's naive for other reasons (for one thing, we're really no closer to super-intelligent AIs than we were before the LLM craze began).
  - cubefox 3y ago
    A lot of people would disagree with that. You can hardly deny that progress has sped up in the last few years, so I don't know why we shouldn't extrapolate this speed into the coming years.

bbor 3y ago

What if big matrices are the last missing piece to research going on since the 50s…

circuit10 3y ago

But the concerns about AI taking over the world are valid and important; even if they sound silly at first, there is some very solid reasoning behind it. They’re big matrices, yes, but they’re Turing-complete which means they can theoretically do any computational task See https://youtu.be/tcdVC4e6EV4 https://youtu.be/tcdVC4e6EV4 for a really interesting video on why a theoretical superintelligent AI would be dangerous, and when you factor in that these models could self-improve and approach that level of intelligence it gets worrying…

garbagecoder 3y ago
This comment basically implies I don't get it, but I will if I watch a Youtube video. I get it. ChatGPT isn't that. That's the point. You can have concerns about AGI. That's fine. But they have nothing to do with LLMs unless you are trying to play a shell game.
- circuit10 3y ago
  But you were talking about AI in general and dismissing the risk entirely as sci-fi. I think a large enough LLM, or at least a slightly modified one, could lead to AGI and we’re not as far from it as you think

cubefox 3y ago

> They're big matrices and they are very cool tools! Well, your mom is a etc Edit: Since this is getting downvoted I'll be more explicit: The human brain may well be also just described as some simple sort of thing, but that doesn't mean humans are not dangerous, nor hypothetical humans with a brain ten times as large and a million times faster. The worry about AIs killing all humans soon is not naive just by sounding naive.

mrtranscendence 3y ago
Sure, it's not naive just because it sounds naive. It's naive for other reasons (for one thing, we're really no closer to super-intelligent AIs than we were before the LLM craze began).
- cubefox 3y ago
  A lot of people would disagree with that. You can hardly deny that progress has sped up in the last few years, so I don't know why we shouldn't extrapolate this speed into the coming years.